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		mbreese 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argum... IIRC interpreters can also read their programs from stdin. Try piping a script to bash and see if it works. (Actually, this is how the `curl install.sh \| bash` anti pattern works. )

teo_zero 21 days ago [–]

Independently of what the interpreter can do, it's #! that doesn't pass the file to it.

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